Sustainable Change in Companies Designed by Nature (Gast: Esther Derby)

What happens when we start to view the organization as a complex
living system and not just a complicated machine that we take apart
and reassemble? Esther Derby challenges us and our still relatively
mechanistic view of the world by injecting new language and
metaphors into the conversation. This was a rich dialogue with a
masterful gardener of agile organizational development and the
author of the book "7 Rules for Positive Productive Change". The
wisdom that she embodies in working with organizations is amazing
and we are happy to have had the opportunity to connect in
conversation and learn from her. We learned that, creating the
right conditions for life(new ways of being/new perspectives)is the
first step in the sequence to creating a thriving forest ecosystem.
Agile organizations are those who interact with their environment
in iterative and incremental ways, while putting a large emphasis
on learning as they go. Small steps can lead to big change and
offer more certainty in reaching preferred outcomes, compared to
the audacious goal of the 3 month roll out to become an agile
organization. Congruence is one of the new words that we learned
and Esther uses it to describe the state of being centred,
balanced, aware of own needs and capabilities while being in a
shared context. Being in congruence is the first step in her change
by attraction model. She explains, once there is an awareness of
the system of a whole, then the system can be changed. We ended the
conversation speaking about the importance of treating people like
adults, being transparant with information and the status quo and
invite them to be participants and great things will occur. We hope
you enjoy this episode as much as we have. Sincerely, Joshua,
Andreas, Chris, Markus, Franziska More about the episode can be
found on
https://www.agile-podcast.de/blog/folge-21-sustainable-change/ PS:
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